Sister Shelby Evans: March 16, 2015

Come What May, and Love it...

Hey y'all! I'm so happy to hear from all of you today! Thanks for thinking of me! This week has been .... CRAZY! I'll explain why here in just a second :)

I LOVED my "Happy Halfway" package!! Thank you so much! I can't believe that I have completed half of my mission already! Time is flying by for me! We were able to teach our new referral, C a couple of times this week and she is doing great! Also, we met with L this week too and she is loving the things that we are teaching her... so much that she is telling her friends about what we have taught her and now they want to learn too! SO COOL!

On Thursday, we had a really great spirit-led day of finding on campus (this week is Spring Break, so we took advantage of the nice weather and the last couple of days of having a full campus of our brothers and sisters who need the gospel so desperately in their lives!) Talk about a successful day!! ... then we came into our apartment for the night and BOOM! Satan had to put a damper on our day! We walked into our apartment and the carpet and entryway were sopping wet (and smelly!) We opened up the closet door where it was coming from and to our unpleasant surprise, SEWAGE EXPLOSION! EVERYWHERE! It was awful!! We called the emergency maintenance guy for our apartment complex and he and a couple of other people worked on it for who knows how long!? We weren't able to stay there for the night (nor did we want to!!), so we called Sister Heap and she gave us permission to stay with our Relief Society President (my bff: Allison Priest) since the next closest set of sisters was an hour and a half away and it was already past 10pm! So, we stayed in Allison's room at her Sorority House hahaha how many missionaries can and ever will say that they stayed at a Sorority House on their mission!? All of the other girls had already left for Spring Break, so it was an empty house.. but still! Pretty funny! We are staying in a temporary apartment for the week until they figure out the cleanup details :) Gotta love living straight out of a suitcase!

Anywho- our focus for the week has been teaching others about the Book of Mormon! I LOVE THAT BOOK! My testimony of the Book of Mormon has been strengthened this week as I have taught others about it! This week I made a comparison that I really like as Sister Udall and I were studying: The Bible is like a map on the wall and the Book of Mormon is MapQuest that shows us the details and how to get from point A to point B! Just think about it :) They both have a vital purpose but are there to support and strengthen one another! I love y'all so much and hope this week is great! Alma 29:9

Love,

Sister Evans

(I loved this picture book!! Thanks so much!)